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Amiri Baraka class on speech, rhythm, sound, and music - Part 1

by: Baraka, Amiri

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Publication date: 1985-08-05 00:00:00

Usage: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

Topics: Sound Poetry, New American Poetry, New York School, political poetry, Black Arts Movement

First half of a class by Amiri Baraka on speech, rhythm, sound, and music. The discussion covers Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, Amos Moore, John Cage, Robert Duncan, T.S. Eliot, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Max Roach, Allen Tate, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and German expressionism. (Continues on 85p087.)